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Amphora (noun) – transport container often used as an ornamental vase

Attica (name) – peninsula and administrative region around Athens

Brackish water (noun with adjective) – water that has more salinity than freshwater but not as much as seawater

Choragic (festival) (adjective) – from choragus (chorus leader providing at his own expense supervision of a chorus for musical contests)

Eugenics (noun) – the idea that it is possible to determine what people are ‘defect’ and improve humanity by not allowing them to reproduce.

Leitmotiv (noun):  musical theme associated with a character or idea in Wagner’s operas and that appears every time this character or idea is involved on the stage.

Libation (noun) – religious ritual in which a liquid offering is presented to a deity

Mystery plays (noun) – a medieval genre of drama: religious plays based on stories from the Bible or about saints.

Peplos (noun) – feminine tunic; typical attire for women in Ancient Greece by 500 BC

Phrenology (noun) – (in the past) the study of the size and shape of the skull to find out about a person’s character or intellect.

Repatriate (verb) – to send or bring someone or something back to the country/place where they come from. If a museum object is repatriated, it is returned to the country/city where it comes from.

Stemmata (noun) – woolen sacrificial fillets

(Sacrificial) Tripod (noun) – three-legged piece of religious furniture used for offerings; the most stable furniture construction for uneven ground

Womxn (noun) – In attempts to de-patriatise language, feminists have modified the word to exclude man or men from the spelling of women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womyn